City and county police released precious few details Monday afternoon about today's early morning arrest of Nathan Antonio Washington of 986 Old Brook Road in connection with an August 2004 sexual assault at Webland Court and a brutal November 2002 rape in the Willoughby subdivision.
Washington, a Harris Teeter employee and father of four, has been charged with five felonies, including forcible rape, attem
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The equipment is in place to send the Woolen Mills dam into history, a project that's been in the works for six years.
The partial breach was supposed to begin today, but a just-returned-from-vacation member of the Army Corps of Engineers wanted to look at the plans again, particularly for the re-vegetation work tha
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Controversy over federal dog-fighting charges against Atlanta Falcons' quarterback Michael Vick isn't confined to the courtroom and media. On Sunday, A Yahoo! Sports exclusive quoted two anonymous sources within the National Football League alleging that league commissioner Roger Goodell was preparing to drop a full-season suspension on the embattled star in the next few weeks. But Goodell and the NFL quickly fired back with a denial.
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The media frenzy has already started. The modest apartment in the Abbington Crossing apartment complex off Rio Road that Nathan Antonio "Tony" Washington shares with his wife and three children has become ground zero for news outlets across the state.
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Is this the news we've all been waiting for? A "multi-jurisdictional" press conference involving the Albemarle County, City of Charlottesville and University of Virginia Police Departments along with the Commonwealth Attorneys from Albemarle and Charlottesville has been called for 4pm at the County Police Department.
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Jason Halbert has labored for years to open up area rivers by removing obsolete dams. Within a week, two dams will be history: Charlottesville's historic Woolen Mills dam and the Tye River dam in Nelson County.
The partial breach of Woolen Mills dam starts Monday, and it was definitely the more controversial project.
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Alerts at UVA aren't limited to emergencies. Students can monitor by computer washer and dryer activity on Grounds, the Cav Daily reports, and be notified by email when a particular machine becomes available. Next up: whiter-white and delicate-cycle alerts.
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It's hard to one-up the best location promo of all times– Virginia is for Lovers– so two Nelson County women went with the flow and hatched, "If Virginia is for lovers, then Nelson County is Virginia's love child," the Nelson County Times reports.
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John Gardner, the man who picked up the torch for Ian Fleming by writing 16 of the swashbuckling James Bond novels, died Friday in Basingstoke, England at the age of 80, according to an obituary in this morning's Washington Post. Gardner lived in Charlottesville during much of the 1980s and 1990s.
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In the wake of April's Virginia Tech massacre, UVA has set up a new text-messaging system, and already 6,400 people have signed up, according to an Associated Press report, that also notes that UVA has hired its first emergency preparedness director.
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Washington Park was vandalized last night and pool sanitation was "compromised," according to a city release, and we shudder to think what that might entail. As a result, the pool is closed today– a bloody hot day, thank you very much, vandals– and is expected to reopen tomorrow.
Update: The pool's filtering equipment was damaged, says city spokesman Ric Barrick, and they didn't want people swimming in untreated water. Whew. "That park gets vandalized a lot," says Barrick, "and we may have to step up patrols."
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Charlottesville made national news this morning when the Today Show reported a high yesterday of 153 degrees, at least according to the SunTrust marquee at Albemarle Square. Had that temperature been accurate, people would have been bursting into flame, observed Al Roker, Today Show weather guy. The actual high yesterday was 92 degrees, and SunTrust hopes to have its thermometer fixed...soon. Look for a toasty 101 degrees today.
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In the latest chapter of Charlottesville's seemingly serial slew of strange structure smashups, Albemarle County police announced August 7 that yet another bridge will have to be closed after it sustained damage from a train passing beneath it. Police say the bridge at Broomley and Old Ballard roads will be closed for approximately two days and advise motorists to steer clear.
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Although back in March Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Edward Hogshire sentenced William N. Beebe to 10 years behind bars– with all but 18 months suspended– it seems Beebe won't serve even that abbreviated sentence for his role in a 1984 sexual assault in a fraternity house.
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For those who enjoyed the recent Artini party, part of the allure was the venue– the old bombed out Frank Ix building that created a unique, other-worldly atmosphere for the event.
In this world, however, it appears the old building has become a fire and safety hazard.
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Correction: The Fashion Square shop is the first Build-A-Bear Workshop in Charlottesville. The others, such as "Create a Critter" at Hobbytown may be what Build-A-Bear company lawyer Bill Alvey, a self-described "bearrister," calls "impawsters." Alvey notes that the Build-A-Bear company was founded in 1997 and now has over 250 stores in North America, plus about 30 in the U.K.
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Two westbound coal trains are stopped this morning west of town, including one stretching from the Teague Funeral Home on Ivy Road nearly to the Farmington crossing after a car on a train ahead developed an unexpected tilt (as seen in this photo shot at the West Leigh Drive crossing near Ivy).
Steve Powell, general manager of the Buckingham Branch Railroad, says the situation is under control and that trains should be mov
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The Daily Progress reported yesterday that the sumptuous lakefront headquarters of Amvest Corporation, a building valued over $5 million, will be donated to UVA.
In a sale announced in mid-June, it was revealed that most of the company's assets were being sold to
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Charlottesville Condensed: The 2007 Annual Manual
ON THIS WEEK'S COVER:
Charlottesville condensed: The 2007 Annual Manual
Our comprehensive guide to Central Virginia is back, updated for 2007, and better than ever!
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Four nights ago, Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds played their much anticipated $15,000-per-ticket intimate acoustic show on Long Island. For the high rollers in attendance, the duo busted out a new Dave original. Reportedly tentatively titled "#27," the new tune (if the YouTube video of it is to be trusted) is a slow, bluesy number featuring plenty of slide guitar stylings from Reynolds.
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Blender Magazine just named Coran Capshaw one of the top-10 most influential people in online music, along with Steve Jobs (1), MySpace creators Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe (2), and YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. Capshaw was picked for creating the fan/artist site Musictoday.com.
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Now Starbucks is serving up the Dave Matthews Band with its coffee. Beginning today, the coffee giant will start offering the touring giant's latest edition of "Live Trax" in all its stores. A special TV offer can't be far behind!
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Country crossover star and Albemarle resident Mary Chapin Carpenter tells NPR how a local supermarket ("paper or plastic?") checkout man changed her world after a life-threatenening illness canceled her summer tour.
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Some Charlottesville residents may have noticed a shortage of parking in the Water Street area and an overabundance of Wranglers and Cherokees around last weekend. What was up with that?
The Jeep "Go Anywhere, Do Anything Tour" chose downtown Charlottesville for its latest stop on the nationwide promotional campaign.
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"It wouldn't matter if I were the mayor of the Munchkin City," says Bob Costas, live from Charlottesville this morning on the Today Show, retorting to alleged steroid-enhanced Barry Bonds' remarks that Costas is a "little midget man who knows (nothing) about baseball." Costas charges that Bonds wouldn't be close to breaking Hank Aaron's home run record without performance-enhancing drugs.
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WINA radio is reporting today that the main house at Fairview, the 660-acre Scottsville-area farm formerly owned by Jack Manahan, the late Charlottesville eccentric married to faux czarina Anna "Anastasia" Anderson, was gutted in an early morning fire.
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Charlottesville police chief Tim Longo announced this morning that following an assault last night on a 34-year-old man, officers arrested two 15-year-old males who could be connected to the recent rash of <
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UVA reports that longtime faculty member John Graham, widower to Alexandra Ripley, who penned the sequel to Gone with the Wind, has died. Ripley, originally from Charleston, whose foibles she covered in previous novels, shot to fame in 1991 upon the release of Scarlett, the critically maligned but hugely successful sequel to the classic Southern plantation novel by Margaret Mitchell.
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Last night, on a balmy evening on the bustling Downtown Mall, a decidedly, unhip, un-age-conscious crowd of nearly 1,500 moseyed in to witness the voice of a country generation, Randy Travis.
Not only did he did not disappoint, he stunned.
The 50-something singer has the pipes of someone half his age, and presents a musical experience that is produced but
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Kings Dominion, White t-shirts, Fluvanna ad Miranda ON THIS WEEK'S COVER: The People's Park: Kings Dominion always takes you back
The Lion Country Safari, The Happy Land of Hanna Barbera, the Grizzly. A trip to Hanover County theme park Kings Dominion can also be a trip down memory lane.
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Not content with four channels– CBS, ABC, Fox and the nostalgia-based MyC'villeTV– the Gray Television-owned Newsplex plans to launch a 24-7 weather channel in mid-August.
The new channel "will mirror what you see on the Weather Channel with a lot more regional and local news," says
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Standing under the illuminated marquis of the historic Paramount Theater this morning, venue officials ceremoniously pulled a gold quilted sheet from an easel revealing the 39 acts of the 2007-2008 season. Survey says?
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